Fla. Woman Charged With Sexual Relationship With 11-Year-Old (Another teacher)

Local6.com (WKMG 6) ^ | January 8, 2004 | AP

[looscnnn]

Fla. Woman Charged With Sexual Relationship With 11-Year-Old Police: Relationship Last For 19 Months

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A 49-year-old music teacher has been charged with having a sexual relationship with a boy she first seduced when he was 11 years old, authorities said.

Carol Flannigan, a teacher at Rolling Green Elementary in Boynton Beach, was arrested Wednesday on six charges, including two counts of capital sexual battery on a child under 12. Authorities said the relationship lasted for 19 months.

Flannigan had developed a close relationship with the boy and his family after he took her music class, inviting him and two younger brothers to sleep over at her Boca Raton home.

The stepmother of the boy, now 13, asked Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office to investigate after finding sexually suggestive text messages on his cell phone Tuesday.

After interviewing the boy, investigators listened in on a phone call the boy made to Flannigan in which she told him to continue lying about their relationship, according to an arrest report.

The Department of Children & Families had investigated Flannigan in 2002, after her husband told a marriage counselor she had described feelings she had when she kissed a 12-year-old boy, according the report.

DCF and police concluded there was no indication of sexual abuse or inappropriate touching and closed that case after the boy said he had "tap kissed" Flannigan but had not felt uncomfortable, the report said.

Law enforcement officials were unable to confirm whether the boy in the DCF probe was the same as the one at the focus of Wednesday's arrest.

[BibChr]

You see, this is why homeschooling is such a bad idea. You really need a State Licensed Professional to... ah... er....

How does that go, again?

Dan

[looscnnn]

I think there is a pattern with teachers like this, they have students sleep over or they stay at the students house. It does not take rocket science to figure this out.

[ovrtaxt]

That's just gross.

[looscnnn]

But how else will they get sex ed taught hands on?

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[ken5050]

seems to me, from the several reports of these cases over the last few years..that MOST of them have involved MUSIC teachers.....can it be the "side efects" of giving trumpet lessons?

[BibChr]

Ba da bing

[looscnnn]

I also noticed that the teachers are usually married. We need to ban married people from being teachers, that's the answer.

[SolidSupplySide]

two counts of capital sexual battery

Capital sexual battery??? Does that mean the death penalty is on the table?

[JustPlainJoe]

"sexually suggestive text messages on his cell phone Tuesday."
-"One time...at band camp,..."


How come Miss Wallace never gave ME home schooled tutoring when I was 12???? Some kids have all the luck!

[ArrogantBustard]

The profession she was practicing is only legal in Nevada.

[MotleyGirl70]

Soon these women will start claiming they have a new disease called the Mary Kay Letourneau Syndrome.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

But how else will they get sex ed taught hands on?

She was just providing extra tutoring in math.

As in, "Let's see how many times 11 can go into 49"

[looscnnn]

Was she married? If not, there's the answer.

[looscnnn]

I am going to have a telethon for MKLS. We could find the cure for this terrible disease.

[steve8714]

Maybe I read too fast...where does it say she is a former priest? As we all know, that is the only group with this kind of problem.

[steve8714]

Maybe I read too fast...where does it say she is a former priest? As we all know, that is the only group with this kind of problem.

[steve8714]

Maybe I read too fast...where does it say she is a former priest? As we all know, that is the only group with this kind of problem.

[HarleyD]

Maybe I'm missing something but I can't imagine why anyone would let their 12-year old son stay overnight with an adult. What was the mother thinking? Maybe it's best not to know.